Ya know, we’re suckers for punishment. My dad brought up a bunch of soil last year and we ended up spreading it over this area which had really poor grass coverage and was just an unused portion of our yard which you can see from the road and was butt-ugly.

Well, we bought some stones for a walkway the other day (and we need another 50 so we haven’t started to work on that yet)… but while in North Bay yesterday I found some of these globe bushes  which Martin was really wanting. The cost here was $60 each but where I went yesterday they were only $21 each. MUCH cheaper. So I got three plus a little spreading Juniper bush…. got home, and we planted them right away. Well, we were going to give it some time to decide what we were going to do design-wise there but I got home from work today and found Martin laying out some border around the trees. It took us two hours but we finally got something that we’re some-what happy with. It’s not perfect but with the material we had to work with (those gray border things), it wasn’t bad. Those things are SO annoying and never again will I get them. However, they are the same colour as our paving stones so it’s going to look cohesive when we finally get the pathway down. 

The pathway are these stones (pictured below!) which we will do this pattern… a row of four, a row of three, a row of four, a row of three…. and it’s going to be starting from the fence (the upper left corner of the pic also below) down to our driveway which is about 20-22 feet long. Tonight we also started the grass seeds so hopefully in a week or two we’re going to have cute little grass growing which will complete the design we’re going for. Martin then bought some nice red cedar chips (which we’ve also used in the front yard previously) and look pretty sharp against the wood fencing, our beige and dark brown house and really brings the bush’s colour out too.

 Those little globe bushes will eventually spread out to 1 metre diameter or so and will probably double in size this summer. The juniper will spread out quite a bit and double in its size too this year… eventually ending up at about 2 metres diameter which will fill out that area nicely. However, we are contemplating finding a taller tree to go in the corner and moving that little bush to somewhere else… It’ll just look more visually appealing. It’ll probably be another cedar but more of a cone-shaped. Yea, it’s going to look very fallic, I know…. but not ALL of us are pervs, okay?? So get your mind out of the gutter!

Posted on May 13th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Garden, House Projects, Pictures